mizzen course

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   the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast

   Synonymscrossjack

   Broadersail

Questions about mizzen course

What does mizzen course mean?

mizzen course means "the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast".

What is another word for mizzen course?

Close synonyms include crossjack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mizzen course a common word?

mizzen course is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.